19/20 I suppose he is injured by having a lord so near him." "Quite the contrary if he would be amenable." "You mean if he would be a creature of the lord's. And why was that other man so uncivil to me;--the man who was the lord's gamekeeper ?" "Because you went there as a friend of Goarly." "And that's his idea of English fair play ?" asked the Senator with a jeer. That man Goarly is a rascal." "So everybody says." "And why can't you believe everybody ?" "So everybody says on the lord's side. But before I'm done I'll find out what people say on the other side. I can see that he is ignorant and squalid; but that very probably is the lord's fault. |